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Exit Ghost by Philip Roth – Review
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
No TagA trip to New York for surgery leads to a hasty house-swap with a young, pretty, literary couple. One sometimes wonders whether anyone in Roth’s New York isn’t a writer of some kind – or a Philip Roth of some kind. In Exit Ghost, Roth’s comic turns are joined by welcome notes of pathos: unlike poor Zuckerman, his fiction has been maturing well.
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Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi – Review
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The Ghost’s Child by Sonya Hartnett – Review
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Vicious Circle by Mike Carey – Review
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DogFellow’s Ghost by Gavin Smith – Review
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Indignation by Philip Roth – Review
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Exit Ghost by Philip Roth – Review
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Indignation by Philip Roth – Review
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Indignation by Philip Roth Indignation is a novel full of over-pitched emotion. And blood. It includes frustrated (and occasionally — but no less helpfully — fully … discharged) sexual desire, a suicide attempt, a violent death, some broken bones, a nervous breakdown, vomiting, the release — and the traces, lots and lots of traces —
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland – Review
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The Gum Thief: A Novel by Douglas Coupland Coupland’s pastiches are affectionate, and his novel’s occasionally irksome structure is redeemed by some lovely moments of pathos, in which everyday struggles are given a proper and touching weight. Review: The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland | Books | The Guardian. Person Douglas Coupland Right click for